Middle Quotes

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It's like, well, they're deleted because they're not good or you lost the battle and you couldn't put them in the movie.

I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.

I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.

The middle years of life come on like thunder.

So when you hear about Hillary's [Clinton] dishonesty, or the emails, or taking millions from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern dictatorships - remember, this is not about politics.

There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.

I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.

Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.

Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

It was always acting for me, since I was about 15. My middle brother always wanted to be a news anchor, so we always felt that he'd be the one to take over for dad, so we could go and do our thing.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Average Americans, middle-class citizens, just feel disenfranchised by our government. And they feel particularly unhappy by what is perceived as business-as-usual politics in Washington.

I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

Parents often give middle names just so that later, when they're yelling at the kid, they can drag it out. Henry David Thoreau, you come in here this instant!

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.